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SCIENCE. 



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History, will be unveiled. At 8 o'clock there 

 will be a reception by the trustees of the mu- 

 seum and the New York Academy of Sciences 

 with an exhibition of scientific progress by the 

 academy, including demonstrations and short 

 addresses. At 10 o'clock there will be an in- 

 formal smoker at the Chemists' Club. 



4. The meetings will continue on Monday 

 and Tuesday, or so long as is required by the 

 programs, and probably several of the special 

 societies will meet on those days. The meet- 

 ing of the nominating committee will be on 

 Monday evening. 



5. The Hotel Belmont, on 42d street, op- 

 posite the Grand Central Station, will' be the 

 general headquarters. Adjoining this hotel 

 are the Murray Hill Hotel and the Grand 

 Union Hotel, at which the rates are lower. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 

 A scientific' session of the National Acad- 

 emy of Sciences will be held at the Harvard 

 Medical School, Boston, beginning on Tues- 

 day, November 20, at 11 a.m. 



The winter meeting of Section C of the 

 American Association for the Advancement 

 of Science will be held in conjunction with 

 the American Chemical Society at Columbia 

 University, New York, December 27, 1906, to 

 January 2, 1907. The following persons have 

 been appointed to preside over the sections 

 and to aid in the preparations for the meeting : 



Physical Chemistry, Alexander Smith. 



Inorganic Chemistry, E. H. Miller. 



Organic Chemistry, A. S. Wheeler. 



Agricultural and Sanitary Chemistry, L. L. 

 Van Slyke. 



Biological Chemistry, P. A. Levene. 



Industrial Chemistry, A. D. Little. 



Members desiring to present papers are re- 

 quested to send titles and brief abstracts to 

 one of these persons or to the secretary of the 

 section, Professor Charles L. Parsons, New 

 Hampshire College, Durham, N. H. To make 

 sure of consideration, such titles should be 

 received before November 24. 



The American Physiological Society will 

 hold its nineteenth annual meeting during 

 convocation week in New York City, on 



Thursday, Friday and Saturday, December 

 27, 28 and 29, 1906. The session on the morn- 

 ing of December 29 will be a joint meeting 

 with Section K — Physiology and Experimental 

 Medicine — of the American Association for 

 the Advancement of Science, at the Rocke- 

 feller Institute for Medical Research. 



The annual meetings of the American An- 

 thropological Association and of the American 

 Polk-lore Society will be held in New York 

 City, beginning on December 27, in affiliation 

 with Section H of the American Association 

 for the Advancement of Science. 



Sir William Perkin has received the degree 

 of doctor of laws from the Johns Hopkins 

 University, and the degree of doctor of science 

 from Columbia University. He has been en- 

 tertained by the University of Pennsylvania 

 and other institutions that he has visited. 



In addition to those engineers who were an- 

 nounced in Science as having been granted 

 the degree of D.Sc. on the occasion of the 

 dedication of the new engineering building of 

 the University of Pennsylvania, the degree 

 was conferred on Professor W. P. Blake. In 

 presenting Professor Blake for the degree, Mr. 

 Arthur L. Chase said : " We ask you to con- 

 fer the degree on William Phipps Blake, be- 

 cause of his knowledge and experience in 

 mining engineering, geology and mineralogy. 

 The results of his activities have been useful 

 to the governments of the United States, to 

 Japan, to the state of California and to Ari- 

 zona territory. For many years he has oc- 

 cupied a distinguished position as a teacher, 

 and he has written a great number of illumi- 

 nating books and papers on the mining of 

 the precious metals and other technical sub- 

 jects." 



Captain Roald Amundsen sailed on Novem- 

 ber 8, on the Scandinavian-American steamer 

 Hellig Olav, for Christiania, where the records 

 of his magnetic observations in the Arctic vsdU 

 be worked out. Captain Amundsen has pre- 

 sented his entire collection to the Norwegian 

 government. The new king of Norway has 

 conferred upon him the highest decoration of 

 the kingdom, the grand cross and cordon of 

 St. Olaf. 



